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Academic OneFile (Gale) - Full Text

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC plus full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present. Updated daily.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Biology; Business and Economics; Criminal Justice; Education; Forestry and Agriculture; General and Multidisciplinary; Geography; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; History; Journalism; Languages and Literature; Marketing and Advertising; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Psychology; Science and Technology; Social Sciences

Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary with full text for more than 2,100 journals, including over 1,700 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study with backfiles as far back as 1985.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Biology; Business and Economics; Criminal Justice; Education; Forestry and Agriculture; General and Multidisciplinary; Geography; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; History; Journalism; Languages and Literature; Marketing and Advertising; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Psychology; Science and Technology; Social Sciences

AccessScience (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Science database with full text articles from the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology plus full text biographical information, news articles, and science dictionary.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Biology; Environmental Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Reference; Science and Technology

Alt HealthWatch (McGraw-Hill) - Full Text

Alternative health database with full text for more than 180 complementary and alternative medicine journals, reports, proceedings and newsletters plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, etc. Full text coverage dates back to 1990.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing

Applied Science & Technology (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's full text science and technology database - Select 'Applied Science & Technology (AST)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Includes articles from 175 journals covering a wide variety of applied science specialties.

ArchiveGrid (FirstSearch) - Full Text

Historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives around the world.

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; History

Art Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's full text art database - Select 'Art (ART)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 160 journals. International coverage, new artists, exhibition reviews, criticism, etc.

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film

AtoZ Maps (World Trade Press) - Images

The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Geography; History; Reference; West Virginia

Biography in Context (Gale) - Full Text

Contextual information on the world's most influential people. Authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) merged with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; History; Reference; Social Sciences

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's full text biological & agricultural database - Select 'Biological & Agricultural (BA)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 90 journals ranging from popular to professional with about a 45 percent of the focus on agriculture.

Subjects: Biology; Forestry and Agriculture; Science and Technology

Books in Print Professional (with reviews) (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, audio, & video titles featuring full-text previews and reviews of titles - reviews are from CHOICE, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Research & Reference Book News, University Press Book News, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Quill & Quire, Horn Book Guide, Horn Book Magazine, and more. Includes cover images, author biographies, annotations, etc.

Resource Types: Books; Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Languages and Literature; Reference

Business Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's business full text database - Select 'Business (BUS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 410 publications covering a wide range of specialties.

Subjects: Business and Economics; Marketing and Advertising

Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Full text from scholarly business, management and economics journals covering such topics as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. for over 1,000 business publications with information dating back to 1985. Includes 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor.

Subjects: Business and Economics; Marketing and Advertising

CAMIO (FirstSearch) - Images

Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - a premiere resource for works of art from prominent museums around the world.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Reference

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books and magazine articles.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing

CQ Researcher (CQ Press) - Full Text

Full text, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues shaping our world with statistics, chronologies, bibliographies, and more.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference

Subjects: Geography; Journalism; Reference; Social Sciences

Credo Reference (Proquest) - Full Text

Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Reference; Social Sciences

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (Proquest) - Full Text

Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text.

Subjects: Criminal Justice; Social Sciences

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Access to RFK library's collection of over 36,100 electronic books on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary eBooks).

Resource Types: Books; Reference

Subjects: Education; General and Multidisciplinary; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Reference; Social Sciences

EBSCOhost Databases (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page. Many include links to full text of the articles indexed.

Resource Types: Database Gateway

Education Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's education full text database - Select 'Education (EDU)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 350 journals including the Chronicle of Higher Education back to January 2000.

Subjects: Education

Encyclopedia Britannica (Britannica) - Full Text

Encyclopedia articles plus a dictionary, a thesaurus and an Internet guide.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Reference

ERIC (EBSCOhost)

Abstracting/indexing to education journals included in Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index - with linked access to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. ALL ED# articles up through June 2006 are available on microfiche in the RFK library.

Subjects: Education; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film

ERIC (U.S. Dept of Education)

Bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.

Subjects: Education; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film

European Views of the Americas : 1493 to 1750 (EBSCOhost)

The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: History; Reference; Social Sciences

FirstSearch Databases

A collection of online databases, providing coverage of much of the journal literature for academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page

Resource Types: Database Gateway

Subjects: Education; General and Multidisciplinary; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Social Sciences

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Subject-specific databases of materials. Mostly bibliographic and abstracts with information where located. Can limit some to resources held in the RFK Library.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Reference

Gale Databases (Gale) - Full Text

RFK Library databases offered through the Gale Group gateway - Academic OneFile, Biography Resource Center, General OneFile, Health and Wellness Resource Center, Literature Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

Resource Types: Database Gateway

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Marketing and Advertising

Gale PowerSearch (Gale) - Full Text

Provides researchers access to almost all the Gale content in the Robert F. Kidd Library Gale databases through one, single search query.

Resource Types: Database Gateway

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Marketing and Advertising

General OneFile (Gale) - Full Text

News and periodical articles covering business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; News and Newspapers

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Biology; Business and Economics; Criminal Justice; Education; Forestry and Agriculture; General and Multidisciplinary; Geography; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; History; Journalism; Languages and Literature; Marketing and Advertising; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Psychology; Science and Technology; Social Sciences

General Science Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's full text database - Select 'General Science (GS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 100 journals designed for students and non-specialists.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Science and Technology

Global Road Warrior (World Trade Press) - Full Text

The ultimate guide to the world with information on 175 countries.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Geography; Reference; Social Sciences

Google Scholar Advanced Scholar Search (Google) - Full Text

Search for court cases, journals, and books. Fees apply for some items but court cases are free. Books may frequently be obtained via interlibrary loan; see a librarian for details.

Resource Types: Database Gateway

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary

GPO (FirstSearch) - Full Text

U.S. government publications (can generally connect to a publication through URL link in record).

Resource Types: Database Gateway; Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Reference

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Biology; Education; Environmental Sciences; Forestry and Agriculture; Marketing and Advertising; Science and Technology

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (WV Library Commission) - Full Text

Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Articles, research starters, world newspapers, lesson plans, and much more.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Reference

Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module

Contains nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing

Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Provides consumer health information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Accesses nearly 80 full text consumer health magazines.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing

Humanities Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's humanities full text database - Select 'Humanities (HUM)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 250 journals covering a full range of subjects.

Subjects: Languages and Literature

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's legal full text database - Select 'Legal (ILP)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' - Nearly 270 periodicals, many peer-reviewed.

JSTOR (Jstor) - Full Text

GSC's four JSTOR collections provide access to 471 full text journals. Our JSTOR collections are: Arts and Sciences II; Arts and Sciences III; Ecology & Botany; and Language & Literature. These collections cover a large number disciplines.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Biology; Business and Economics; Criminal Justice; Education; Environmental Sciences; Forestry and Agriculture; General and Multidisciplinary; Geography; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; History; Journalism; Languages and Literature; Marketing and Advertising; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Psychology; Social Sciences; West Virginia

LearningExpressLibrary (WV Library Commission) - Full Text

Practice Tests/Tutorial Courses/Writing Improvement. Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Offers study guides, e-books, and practice tests for major standardized exams like the GRE, Praxis, ASVAB and many others.

Resource Types: Test Preparation

Subjects: Education

Library Catalog (MARLO) (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)

Robert F. Kidd Library's online catalog for finding books, videos, DVDs, journals and other materials housed in the library.

Resource Types: Books; Reference

Subjects: Reference

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's library and information full text database - Select 'Library & Information Science (LIB)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Over 155 journals as far back as 1997.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Education; Reference

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost) - Librarianship

Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Education; Reference; Social Sciences

Literature Resource Center - LRC (Gale) - Full Text

Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world plus links to authoritative related web sites and much more. Also has both LitFinder and MLA International Bibliography integrated into the database.

Subjects: Languages and Literature

Literature Resources from Gale (Gale) - Full Text

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

LitFinder (Gale) - Full Text

Contains over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays with biographies, explanations, overviews and images.

Subjects: Languages and Literature

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary with full text for over 1,750 periodicals. Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, over 164,474 primary source documents and an Image collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Geography; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Reference; Social Sciences

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)

Abstracting/indexing for over 4,800 current, biomedical journals (some linked to full text). Covers medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and other related topics.

MLA International Bibliography (Gale) - Full Text

Contains all the entries in the print issues from 1926 to the present. Includes the Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Bibliography names and subject thesauri.

Subjects: Languages and Literature

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Data (.gov) - Full Text

Official climate publications of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) national data centers - compiled using information from weather observing sites supervised by NOAA/National Weather Service. All online publications are FREE of charge for all .gov, .edu, .k12, .us, and .mil domains.

Naxos Music Library (Naxos) - Audio

Online collection of over 500,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

Resource Types: Video and Music

Subjects: Music, Dance, Drama, and Film

Newspaper Archive (WV Library Commission) - Full Text

Provided courtesy of the West Virginia Library Commission's WV Info Depot. Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages from 4,026 newspapers dating as far back as the 1700s.

Resource Types: News and Newspapers

Subjects: Journalism

Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 35 national U.S. and international newspapers and select full-text to more than 375 U.S. regional newspapers. Plus full text television & radio news transcripts from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Resource Types: News and Newspapers

Subjects: Journalism

OmniFile Full Text Select (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's full text databases - Art, Applied Science & Technology, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education, General Science, Humanities, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business. Full text coverage begins in 1994.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) - Full Text

Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-test magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Languages and Literature; Reference; Social Sciences

Points of View Reference Center (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary - provides essays that present multiple sides of 200 controversial topics. Also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference

Subjects: General and Multidisciplinary; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Journalism; Languages and Literature; Reference; Social Sciences

Primary Search (US National Institutes of Health) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary juvenile database with popular full text magazines for elementary school research. Full text articles are assigned reading level indicators (Lexiles).

Subjects: Education; General and Multidisciplinary

Pubmed Central (US National Institutes of Health) - Full Text

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Subjects: Criminal Justice; Health, Medicine, and Nursing

Readers' Guide Full Text Select (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's Readers' Guide full text database - Select 'Readers' Guide (Current Events) (RDG)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' - Articles from some 215 journals, many of them peer-reviewed.

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Full text regional business publications including journals, newspapers and newswires covering metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Resource Types: News and Newspapers; Reference

Subjects: Business and Economics; Journalism; Reference

Salem History (Salem Press) - Full Text

Milestone Documents in American History combines 134 full-text primary source documents with expert analysis and commentary covering the years 1763-2003.

Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

A colorful, easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd ed., and an Image Collection of over 235,000 images covering history, politics, animals, topical news, science, maps and flags.

Subjects: Education

Serials Directory (EBSCOhost)

Up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing structures for magazines, journals, newspapers, and other serials plus contact information on publishers. (This is not an index to articles.)

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Reference

Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's social science full text database - Select 'Social Science (SS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' – Contains articles from some 215 journals covering the latest concepts, trend, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Subjects: Social Sciences

Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)

SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading levels.

Subjects: Education

Student Resources in Context (Gale) - Full Text

Contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Authoritative reference content merged with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCOhost)

This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Subjects: Education

TEAS - Test Prep Review (TestPrepReview.com) - Full Text

Provides free unofficial review materials for a variety of exams through Test Prep Review and TEAS (Test of Essential Academic Skills).

Resource Types: Test Preparation

Subjects: Education

TOPICsearch (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Contains full text from diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Covers social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles

Subjects: Education

West Virginia Encyclopedia Online

The West Virginia Encyclopedia is the comprehensive reference resource for the Mountain State of West Virginia. Based on the best-selling West Virginia Encyclopedia, e-WV offers thousands of articles on West Virginia’s people and places, history, arts, science and culture.

Resource Types: Reference

Subjects: Health, Medicine, and Nursing; Reference; West Virginia

WorldAlmanac (FirstSearch) - Full Text

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)

OCLC catalog of books, videos, web resources, and other library items in libraries worldwide.

Resource Types: Books; Reference

Subjects: Reference; West Virginia

WV Info Depot (WV Library Commission) - Full Text

Databases available from the West Virginia Library Commission including Learning Express Library and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Call 304-462-4109 or ext. 6160 for log on information.

Resource Types: Database Gateway

WVDeli (Overdrive) - Full Text

West Virginia Digital Entertainment Library Initiative. Download audiobooks, eBooks, music and video from a rapidly growing library collection of digital materials. Sign in by selecting Glenville State College from the library drop down list and using your ten digit college ID number. Call 304-462-4109 if you need help.

Resource Types: Books; Reference; Video and Music

Subjects: Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts; Business and Economics; Criminal Justice; Education; Forestry and Agriculture; General and Multidisciplinary; Health, Medicine, and Nursing; History; Languages and Literature; Marketing and Advertising; Music, Dance, Drama, and Film; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Reference; Social Sciences